James Smithson quotes
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“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.”
-- James SmithsonSource : James Smithson, John Robin McDaniel Irby (1879). “The Scientific Writings of James Smithson”
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“The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.”
-- James SmithsonSource : Smithsonian Institution, James Smithson (1966). “Knowledge Among Men: Eleven Essays on Science, Culture, and Society Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of James Smithson”
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“Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men,”
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“It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.”
-- James SmithsonSource : James Smithson, John Robin McDaniel Irby (1879). “The Scientific Writings of James Smithson”
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
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“What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.”
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Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1985). “Science in the Making”, Praeger Pub Text
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Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.
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Source : "Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors" by Adam Hochschild, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
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Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.50, Mondial
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